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Webster 1913 Edition
Officious
1.
Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
[R.]
If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an
officious
and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. (Douay version).
2.
Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
[Archaic]
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious
. Milton.
They were tolerably well bred, very
officious
, humane, and hospitable. Burke.
3.
Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
You are too
In her behalf that scorns your services.
officious
In her behalf that scorns your services.
Shakespeare
Syn. – Impertinent; meddling. See
– Impertinent
. Of-fi′cious-ly
, adv.
Of-fi′cious-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Officious
OFFI'CIOUS
,Adj.
1.
Kind; obliging; doing kind offices.Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious.
2.
Excessively forward in kindness; importunately interposing services.You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your services.
3.
Busy; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern.